Below is an ever-growing range of discipleship materials intended to help you become a more effective disciple of Jesus Christ and a better disciple-maker.

Each book has been deliberately designed to be used with its Companion Workbook, since together they offer a thorough learning experience that combines biblical teaching, personal reflection, practical application, spiritual formation, and leadership development to achieve the greatest possible impact in discipleship.

The Collins Discipleship Institute School of Ministry curriculum includes each Book and each Companion Workbook as part of one course.

To learn more about Certificates of Completion, Certificates of Achievement, and Certificates of Graduation – please visit the CDI Administration section of our website.

We pray these resources will help develop your relationship with Jesus Christ, deepen your knowledge of God’s Word, and enable you to faithfully carry out the Great Commission by producing disciples who, in turn, produce disciples.

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Every church member has influence. The issue is whether that influence is edifying or detrimental to the Body of Christ.  In 10 Things Every Church Member Should Know, Bishop Collins sets out ten key biblical principles which are vital to the church member’s life and which will equip them to be more effective as leaders, more faithful as servants and more positive influences in the church.  This is a practical guide which challenges Christians to go beyond just attending church and to actually be about strengthening the church.  Healthy churches start with spiritually healthy people.  Become a Positive Influence in Your Congregation.  A required course (10 weeks) for the School of Church Life.

10 Things Every Church Member Should Know – Companion Workbook

Transforming Biblical Knowledge into Everyday Christian Living.  Knowing the principles is important.  Living them is transformational.  Designed to go with 10 Things Every Church Member Should Know, this is a practical, Scripture-based workbook which will help believers take biblical knowledge and turn it into spiritual maturity, Christlike character and positive impact in the church.  Through 10 interactive sessions the participants are challenged to look at their attitudes, build their relationships, develop servant leadership and live out the Word of God.  Ideal for individuals, small groups and leadership teams, this companion workbook provides a practical route from learning the truth of the Bible to living it.  This is a required resource (10 weeks) for the School of Church Life.

Authentic Christian Behavior: In Authentic Christian Behavior, Bishop Dr. Anthony Collins presents a bold, biblical, and practical spiritual guide for believers who desire more than surface-level faith. This book confronts modern Christianity’s greatest crisis: a disconnect between what we profess and how we live. With pastoral insight and prophetic clarity, Bishop Collins exposes the dangers of relativism, hypocrisy, and performative faith, while offering a proven spiritual framework rooted in obedience, identity, and transformation.  This is a required course (5 weeks) for completion of the School of Christian Life.

Authentic Christian Behavior – Companion Workbook:  The Authentic Christian Behavior Companion Workbook is designed to help you discover that authentic Christianity is not behavior modification.  It is the visible evidence of a life transformed by Jesus Christ.  Built upon the biblical principles found in Authentic Christian Behavior, this interactive workbook will guide you through thoughtful Bible study, practical application, personal reflection, leadership development, and spiritual formation.  This is a required course (5 weeks) for completion of the School of Christian Life.

Finding Faith in the Furnace is a biblical journey through sixteen powerful stories that reveal what genuine faith looks like when life becomes difficult.  Through testing, fear, uncertainty, failure, waiting, opposition, surrender, and perseverance, Bishop Dr. Anthony Collins shows how God uses the furnace not simply to test our faith, but to refine it.  This book will challenge you to trust God when you cannot see the outcome, obey when obedience is costly, stand when fear says run, and hold on when everything within you wants to quit.  This is a required course (16 weeks) for completion of the School of Faith.

Practicing His Presence – Volume 1 the book:       Practicing His Presence – Volume 1 – The Path to Power, Identity, and Victory

Discover the life-changing power of God’s presence. In Practicing His Presence, Bishop Anthony Collins provides a practical, Scripture-centered guide to developing a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. Learn how God’s presence transforms your identity, strengthens your faith, overcomes spiritual barriers, and empowers you to live in His victory every day. This foundational volume equips believers to move beyond religion into a vibrant life of intimacy, obedience, and Kingdom purpose.  This is a required course (15 weeks) for the CDI School of His Presence.

Practicing His Presence – Companion Workbook -Volume 1
The Practicing His Presence Companion Workbook has been carefully designed to transform the truths found in Practicing His Presence: The Path to Power, Identity, and Victory into daily spiritual practice.  More than a collection of study questions, this workbook serves as a personal guide for cultivating a lifestyle of intimacy with Jesus Christ.  This is a required course (15 weeks) for the CDI School of His Presence.

Living in His Presence: Practicing His Presence – Volume 2 – The Book

This book is not about knowing more.  It’s about becoming different.  In Living in His Presence, Bishop Anthony Collins moves beyond foundational truth and into something deeper:  What happens when the presence of God is not just something you experience, but something you live in daily.  This is not surface-level Christianity.  This is a call to: Alignment – Obedience – Transformation. This is a required course (15 weeks) for the CDI School of His Presence.

The Cross Before Calvary: How the Five Sacrifices of Leviticus Reveal the Death of Christ uncovers the remarkable picture of Jesus hidden within the five offerings of Leviticus.  Through the Burnt, Grain, Peace, Sin, and Trespass Offerings, Bishop Anthony Collins reveals five powerful dimensions of Christ’s redemptive work – complete surrender, perfect righteousness, restored fellowship, substitution for sin, and a debt paid in full.  Five shadows.  One Cross.  One Savior.  One finished work.  Discover how the altar before Calvary was pointing to Jesus all along.  This is a required course (5 weeks) for completion of the CDI School of The Finished Work of Christ.

The Cross Before Calvary Companion Workbook takes the truths of the five Levitical offerings from revelation to transformation.  Designed for individuals, small groups, and leadership teams, this five-session discipleship journey combines Scripture study, spiritual formation, Kingdom principles, leadership insight, personal reflection, prayer, and practical application.  Go beyond understanding the Cross and learn to live in its reality – surrendered, transformed, reconciled, free from condemnation, and confident in Christ’s finished work.  The sacrifice is complete. The debt is paid. Now live like it.  This is a required course (5 weeks) for completion of the CDI School of The Finished Work of Christ.

God never intended you to live the Christian life in your own strength. In The Ultimate Power Revealed in You, the author explores the person, presence, and transforming power of the Holy Spirit who dwells within every believer. Discover how surrender, obedience, faith, and intimacy with God position you to experience His power, fulfill His purpose, and become an effective witness for Jesus Christ.  As an authentic follower of Jesus Christ, the power you need is not something you must manufacture – it is the power of God already at work within you.  This is a required course (15 weeks) for the School of Christian Life.

The Ultimate Power Revealed in You Companion Workbook transforms biblical truth into practical spiritual formation.  Designed to accompany the book, these 15 sessions guide individuals, small groups, and leadership teams through Scripture study, personal reflection, spiritual formation, Kingdom principles, and practical application.  Go beyond simply learning about the Holy Spirit.  Discover what it means to surrender to His presence, walk in His power, and allow Christ to be revealed through your life.  Learn. Live. Lead. Launch. Repeat.  This is a required resource (15 weeks) for the School of Christian Life.

All issues stem from the question of worship.  In this book The Issue of Worship, Bishop Collins leads readers past songs, services, and various forms of religious activity in order to discover the deeper biblical significance of worship.  This book shows that worship is ultimately concerned with who occupies the throne in our hearts, covering the subjects of creation and the fall as well as redemption, eternity, and revival.  People are encouraged to look at their own priorities, face their misplaced devotion, put Christ in His proper position, and discover the way in which genuine worship leads to surrender, obedience, transformation, and revival.  Worship is not just something that we perform; it is the life we were made to live.  This is a required course (8 weeks) for completion of the School of Worship.

The official The Issue of Worship Companion Workbook transforms the truths of the book into a practical journey of biblical study, spiritual formation, personal reflection, and daily obedience.  Designed for individuals, small groups, and leadership teams, each session helps participants examine the throne of the heart, identify competing loyalties, deepen their understanding of Scripture, and translate true worship into everyday life.  More than a study guide, this workbook is an invitation to return to God, restore His place, realign your life, and respond with new obedience.  Because when worship is restored, lives are transformed and personal obedience becomes corporate revival.  This is a required course (8 weeks) for completion of the School of Worship.

When Heaven Touches Earth: The Seven Dimensions of Transformational Prayer encourages believers to go beyond simply asking God for things and to understand prayer as one of relationship, communion, surrender, and transformation.  By means of seven dimensions: the Privilege, the Plan, the Pattern, the Purpose, the Posture, the Promise, and the Power of Prayer – Bishop Collins provides a biblical and practical way of achieving a more profound relationship with God.  You will learn how prayer can transform the heart, strengthen faith, bring about alignment with God’s will, and enable human weakness to come into contact with divine sufficiency. This book is information that when partnered with application, will significantly and dramatically transform your life.  A required course (7 weeks) for the School of Prayer.

The When Heaven Touches Earth Companion Workbook transforms the principles of The Seven Dimensions of Transformational Prayer into a practical journey of spiritual formation.  Designed for individuals, small groups, and leadership teams, each session combines Scripture study, theological insight, personal reflection, spiritual formation, practical application, prayer, and worship to help believers move from learning about prayer to developing a life of prayer. The goal is not simply to know more about prayer – but to know God more deeply and live in continual conversation with Him.  A required resource (7 weeks) for the School of Prayer.